Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886
Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886
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Thanksgiving - since when? While it seems as though Thanksgiving, our greatest family get-together holiday, has been here forever, it only became our lawful national tradition recently, and not without some bickering, the efforts of a citizen activist and congressional backroom compromises. The version of Thanksgiving being traditionally associated with a 1621 Pilgrim end-of-harvest feast, which included a guest list of neighboring first-citizen Indians, is the common assumption. While that is...
You knew our Declaration of Independence was signed and celebrated each July 4 of our county’s history. But did you know our War of Independence started when the Minute Men skirmished with British troops in April of 1774? And that was when the people of the 13 States, (or colonies as the British preferred) decided for the first time in modern history that a colony which answered to a higher government, England, would declare a right of self-rule. So, representatives of those states convened in a Congress from September to October, 1774, and d...
